Seleção de trabalhos apresentados no Workshop realizado na cidade de Brasília-DF em 20 de março de 2003
This paper investigates the level, distribution and structure of the tax burden on labor in Brazil, showing how many and what types of workers are affected by different levels of taxation. The results show a significant variation in the level and composition of the tax burden among subgroups of workers. For example, the effective tax rate for a worker earning the legal minimum wage and having three or more chil...
This paper applies the method developed by Ahmad & Stern (1984) to calculate the marginal welfare cost of taxation for 27 commodity groups using microdata from the POF 2002-2003 and price-elasticities of demand based on the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS). The estimates are presented for different assumptions about the society's degree of inequality aversion. The results suggest that some commodity groups are...
Despite raising an amount of taxes that represents nearly 37% of the countrys GDP and spending over half of this revenue on social programmes, the Brazilian government has not been able to significantly alleviate inequality and poverty. A number of studies have shown evidence that, to a great extent, this situation is due to the inadequate targeting of public expenditures. The distributive impact of the financ...